It sounds like "Sled Harbor" is a trailhead, a place where you leave a vehicle to start hiking on a footpath, or where you are picked up in a vehicle after your hike, correct?
A few months ago we discussed the tag highway=trailhead - used over 1500 times: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Ahighway%3Dtrailhead Trailheads in remote parts of the USA are often no more than a named place where a path meets a highway. If the name also describes the clearing in the woods as well, this might also be landuse=meadow (or natural=scrub, natural=wetland etc). On 4/16/19, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are named localities that have only the most tenuous of > identifiable features. > > One example that I've visited is 'Sled Harbor'. It never had a > population. It was just a place where the woods were open enough that > loggers could store their sleds there in the summer. It's now right at > the boundary between protected wilderness and International Paper > land. Since there's an easement for the public to travel International > Paper's road (well, logging track), it's the farthest that one can > lawfully drive (well, force passage with a 4WD, when there isn't deep > snow or mud) to pick up or drop off a party. Because of this, hikers > still use the name. But it's really just a point where the > highway=track crosses into the boundary=protected_area. There's no > formal parking. It isn't the endpoint of the track, since it continues > in farther to abandoned logging camps dating from before the state > owned the Jessup River parcel. All that there is there is a sign > saying something like, "no motor vehicles beyond this point." It is > still a place with a name. > > It did come in from GNIS as 'populated place,' which it is not and > never was. Still, I don't see a good alternative to place=location for > it, so I'm definitely against the idea of removing locations > wholesale. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
